Lot 410
  • 410

Fu Baoshi 1904 - 1965

Estimate
3,200,000 - 5,000,000 HKD
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Description

  • Fu Baoshi
  • DRUNKEN MONK
  • ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll
signed XINYU FU BAOSHI, dated gui wei, 1943, the ninteenth day of the fourth lunar month, inscribed. Inscribed again in the following year, signed FU BAOSHI, dated yi you, 1945, winter, with a dedication, and a total of four seals of the artist  

Exhibited

Tokyo, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Yanghetang Collection of Chinese Modern Paintings and Ching Dynasty Ceramics, September 1 to 27, 1987
Tokyo, Shoto Museum of Art, Fu Baoshi: 20th Century Chinese Painting Master, 12 October to November 21, 1999
Taiepi, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Centenary Exhibition of Fu Baoshi, 18 December, 2004 to 27 March, 2005

Literature

Yanghetang Collection of Chinese Modern Paintings and Ching Dynasty Ceramics, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, September 1987, pl. 138 
Masterpieces of Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, and Fu Baoshi, Chang Foundation, Taipei, October 1990, p. 257 
Fu Baoshi: 20th Century Chinese Painting Master, exhibition cat., Tokyo, Shoto Museum of Art, 1999, pl. 18 
The World of Fu Baoshi, Ye Zonggao ed., Shi Jh Tang Press Co. Ltd., Taipei, December 2004, p. 197
The Chronicle of Fu Baoshi's Life, Ye Zonggao ed., Shanghai Classics Publishing House, September 2004, p.65
Fu Baoshi, written by Lin Mu, Shi Jh Tang Press Co. Ltd., Taipei, December 2004, p. 79
The Complete Works of Fu Baoshi, vol. I, Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House, March 2008, p. 213

Condition

- In good condition.
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